Program

8:30 - 8:55am Registration

Opening Remarks 9:00 - 9:15

Dr Nadine McCloud Head of Department of Economics

UWI Mona

Introduction of Keynote Speaker Ajornie Taylor, UWI Mona

Keynote Speech 9:15 - 10:15 Janet Currie

Henry Putnam Professor of Economics and Public Affairs, Princeton University

“Child Health as Human Capital” DRAF

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DAY 1: MARCH 12, 2019

Coffee Break: 10:15 - 10:45

Panel 1: Growth & Development I (10:45 - 12:15) Chair: Nathaniel Cook, Department of Economics, Furman University

Carlos Bethencourt & Fernando Perera-Tallo : “Growth and Aid: a Hump-Shaped Relationship”

Bill Francis, LiuLing Liu & Zenu Sharma: “The Impact of Societal Trust on R&D: International Evidence”

Diether Beuermann, C. Kirabo Jackson, Laia Navarro-Sola & Francisco Pardo: “What is a Good School, and Can Parents Tell? Evidence on the Multidimensionality of School Output”

David Salmon: “Potential Opportunities Sovereign Wealth Funds Present for the Sustainable Development of Caribbean Nations”

Panel 2: Energy & Environment I (10:45 -12:15) Chair: Alrick Campbell, Department of Economics, UWI Mona, Jamaica

Mohammad Essa Sharik & Evangelos Giouvris: “Oil Price, Oil Price Volatility and Illiquidity Premiums in the US: (A)symmetry and the Impact of Macroeconomic Factors”

Alvin Harris: “Climate Change-Related Natural Disasters and Migration”

Nekeisha Spencer & Eric Strobl: “Household Welfare and Hurricane Risk Exposure: The Implications of Climate Change”

Rob Elliott, Vilane G Sales and Eric Strobl: “Under a Cloud: Satellite Monitoring and Illegal Logging in Brazil ”

Lunch: 12:15 - 1:15

Panel 3: Trade & Productivity (1:15 - 3:00)

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Chair: Marie Freckleton, Department of Economics, UWI Mona, Jamaica Nathaniel Cook: “Preferential Trade Agreements and Tax Competition with Internationally Mobile Firms” Manfred Königstein: “Anti-Competitive Effects of Silent Financial Interests: Experimental Evidence” Nadine McCloud & Ajornie Taylor: “The Effect of Inflation Targeting on International Trade: A Synthetic Control Approach” James Lake, Nken Moise & Halis Murat Yildiz : “Tariff Bindings and the Dynamic Formation of Preferential Trade Agreements” Hubert Scarlett: “Estimating Jamaica’s Potential Output” Panel 4: Finance & Monetary (1:15 - 3:00) Chair: Andre Haughton, Department of Economics, UWI Mona, Jamaica Peter Doyle: “A Preemptive Sovereign Insolvency Regime: Bring the sovereign insolvency regime into line with that for banks, now, starting with Venezuela” Maud Korley & Evangelos Giouvris: “The Exchange Rate and Stock Price in Selected Frontier Market: A Regime Switching Approach” Andre Harrison & Robert Reed : “Capital Flows to Developing Countries: Implications for Monetary Policy Across the Globe” Collin Constantine, Eli Direye & Tarron Khemraj: “Excess Liquidity and the Exchange Rate: The Case of Papua New Guinea” Novelette Panton: “An Exploration of the Structural Form of Central Banks and the extent to which Low and Stable Inflation is consistent with Particular Structures”

Liquid & Networking Break: 3:00 - 3:15

Panel 5: Labour & Education I (3:15 - 4:45)

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Chair: Peter-John Gordon, Department of Economics, UWI Mona, Jamaica Aaro Hazak, Heili Hein & Marit Rebane : “Work Arrangements, Circadian Rhythms and Happiness in Creative R&D Employees” Linda Bailey-McWeeney: ”Immigrant-Native Differences in the Test-Score Effect of Living without Both Biological Parents” Andrea Flores: “Conditional Cash Transfers and Intrahousehold Time Allocation: Evidence from Urban Mexico” Mariana Odio-Zuniga: “Informality, Family and Taxation: How Joint-Household Behavior Affects the Labor Market” Panel 6: Health (3:15 - 4:45) Chair: Weili Ding, School of Policy Studies, Queen’s University, Canada Christelene Horton, Kelly-Ann Dixon Hamil , Ellen M. Wells: “An Ecologic Analysis of Early-Life Lead Exposure and Alzheimer’s Disease Mortality” Gerard van den Berg, Hans-Martin von Gaudecker, Steven Lehrer , Bettina Siflinger: Specification and Estimation of the Birth Weight Production Function: Understanding the Effects of Inputs from the Health Sector Bephyer Parey: “Care Views towards Older Persons with Disabilities in Trinidad. Is Care Predominantly Seen as a Duty, Labour, or Cost?”

END OF DAY 1

DAY 2: MARCH 13, 2020

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Panel 7: Energy & Environment II (8:30 - 10:15) Chair: Eric Strobl, Department of Economics, University of Bern, Switzerland Travis Atkinson: “Policy Options and Implications for Meeting Renewable Energy Targets in Small Island Developing States: Case for Jamaica” G. Charles-Cadogan: “A Singular Single Factor CCAPM with Rare Disasters and Time Varying Risk Attitudes” Christopher Douglas: “The Role of the Ethanol Mandate in Gasoline Prices” Gary Lyn, Ariel Ortiz-Bobea & Ivan Rudik : “Estimating Aggregate Effects of Temperature in Dynamic Spatial General Equilibrium” Aliona Cebotari & Karim Youssef: “Natural Disaster Insurance for Sovereigns: Issues, Challenges and Optimality” Panel 8: Growth & Development II (8:30 - 10:15) Chair: Christine Clarke, Department of Economics, UWI Mona, Jamaica Nilanjan Banik: “What is Driving the Platform Economy? An Examination of Underlying Trends and Implications” Samuel Braithwaite: “Fiscal Decentralisation & the Resource Curse: The Case of Guyana” Weili Ding, Michael J. Kottelenberg, Steven F. Lehrer: Anticipating the (Un)expected: Evidence from Introducing a Universal Childcare Policy with a Shortage of Spaces Samuel Indalmanie: “An Analysis of the Relative Effectiveness of Monetary and Fiscal Policy on Economic Performance in Four CARICOM Member States: Barbados, Guyana, Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago” Chuan Chen, Barton Hamilton, Prasanthi Ramakrishnan: “Gender and Mentorship in Entrepreneurship”

Coffee Break: 10:15 - 10:30

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Panel 9: Labour & Education II (10:30 - 12:15) Chair: Steven Lehrer, School of Policy Studies, Queen’s University, Canada Diego Ubfal, Diether Beuermann , Irani Arraiz, Alessandro Maffioli, Michael Frese & Daniel Verch : “The Impact of Soft-Skills Training for Entrepreneurs in Jamaica” Philipp Doerrenberg, Denvil Duncan & Max Loffler: “Asymmetric Labor-Supply Responses to Wage-Rate Changes: Experimental Evidence from an Online Labor Market” George Gayle , Limor Golan & Mehmet A. Soytas: “What is the Source of the Intergenerational Correlation in Earnings?” Nadine McCloud & Peter-John Gordon: “Peer Effects in Education: Do Boys and Girls Respond Differently?” Chanita Holmes, Marlon Tracey & Ariel Belasen : “The Value of Early Physical Maturity to Young Adult Labor Market Outcomes”

Liquid & Networking Break: 12:15 - 12:30

Invited Session: Labour (12:30 - 2:00) Chair: Nadine McCloud, Department of Economics, UWI Mona, Jamaica “Worker Empowerment and Subjective Evaluation: On Building An Effective Conflict Culture” with Victoria Valle Lara & Christian Zehnder Speaker: W. Bentley Macleod, Sami Mnaymneh Professor of Economics and Professor of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University “Labor Market Power From American Slavery to Amazon Mechanical Turk ” Speaker: Suresh Naidu, Professor of Economics and International and Public Affairs, Columbia University

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LIST OF PRESENTERS

1 AARO HAZAK Tallinn University of Technology (Estonia)

2 AJORNIE TAYLOR The University of the West Indies (Mona)

3 ALVIN HARRIS Western Michigan University (USA)

4 ANDRE HARRISON University of Alabama (USA)

5 ANDREA FLORES Washington University in St. Louis (USA)

6 BEPHYER PAREY The University of the West Indies (Trinidad and Tobago)

7 BILL FRANCIS Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (USA)

8 CARLOS BETHENCOURT Universidad de La Laguna (Spain)

9 CHANITA HOLMES Virginia Tech (USA)

10 CHRISTOPHER DOUGLAS University of Michigan (USA)

11 DAVID SALMON The University of the West Indies (Mona)

12 DENVIL DUNCAN Indiana University (USA)

13 DIETHER BEUERMANN Inter-American Development Bank (USA)

14 ERIC STROBL University of Bern (Switzerland)

15 EVANGELOS GIOUVRIS Royal Holloway, University of London (UK)

16 FRANCISCO PARDO Inter-American Development Bank (USA)

17 G. CHARLES-CADOGAN University of Leicester (UK)

18 GARY LYN Iowa State University (USA)

19 GEORGE GAYLE Washington University in St. Louis (USA)

20 HUBERT SCARLETT Bank of Jamaica (BOJ)

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21 JANET CURRIE Princeton University (USA)

22 KARIM YOUSSEF International Monetary Fund (IMF)

23 KELLY-ANN DIXON HAMIL The University of the West Indies (Mona)

24 LINDA BAILEY-MCWEENEY College of Staten Island (USA)

25 MANFRED KÖNIGSTEIN University of Erfurt (Germany)

26 MARIANA ODIO-ZUNIGA Washington University in St. Louis (USA)

27 MOISE NKEN The University of the West Indies (Mona)

28 NAIDU SURESH Columbia University (USA)

29 NATHANIEL COOK Furman University (USA)

30 NEKEISHA SPENCER The University of the West Indies (Mona)

31 NILANJAN BANIK Bennett University (India)

32 NOVELETTE PANTON University of the West Indies (Mona)

33 PETER DOYLE No affiliation

34 PETER-JOHN GORDON The University of the West Indies (Mona)

35 PRASANTHI RAMAKRISHNAN Washington University in St. Louis (USA)

36 SAMUEL BRAITHWAITE The University of the West Indies (Mona)

37 SAMUEL INDALMANIE Statistical Institute of Jamaica

38 STEVEN LEHRER Queen's University and NBER (Canada)

39 TARRON KHEMRAJ New College of Florida (USA)

40 TRAVIS ATKINSON Purdue University (USA)

41 W. BENTLEY MACLEOD Columbia University (USA)

42 WEILI DING Queen's University (Canada)

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